Classic from the Mrs! Vol 2
Discussion
k me, I always thought Taunton was in the north...Doofus said:
john_1983 said:
I'm far from retired, but I'm a hungry boy who wants his dinner at an appopriate time, not like you southern lot trying to live like you're on the continent and having dinner close to bedtime 
6pm dinner is plenty late enough, I get hangry otherwise. Anyway, back to the point in hand - stick to the timings previously communicated!
Must be a PITA if you want to go out to dinner.6pm dinner is plenty late enough, I get hangry otherwise. Anyway, back to the point in hand - stick to the timings previously communicated!
John_1983: Hello, may I book a table for 5:30 please?
Maitre d': Sorry Sir, we don't open until 7.
John_1983: Ok, 7 then. Is it ok if I wear my pyjamas?
5.30 is perfect for eating out. It's quiet, you get better service, the chef isn't trying to fix your meal and another 30 at the same time, and you can get home in time for the cricket highlights on the beeb
havoc said:
Hey, anywhere north of the Watford Gap is north as far as Londoners are concerned. They get a nosebleed if they get as far as Birmingham*
* Probably because they've just been mugged, but hey...
About a hundred miles too far. * Probably because they've just been mugged, but hey...
My wife thinks the clue is in the name - the North Circular. Nosebleeds start in Brent.
havoc said:
john_1983 said:
You lot are hilarious, thinking Yorkshire is the north 
Hey, anywhere north of the Watford Gap is north as far as Londoners are concerned. They get a nosebleed if they get as far as Birmingham** Probably because they've just been mugged, but hey...
sociopath said:
Where do you live where restaurants don't open until 7?
5.30 is perfect for eating out. It's quiet, you get better service, the chef isn't trying to fix your meal and another 30 at the same time, and you can get home in time for the cricket highlights on the beeb
To be clear, I'm not talking about McDonalds or Family Farm, here. I'm talking about restaurants for grown-ups.5.30 is perfect for eating out. It's quiet, you get better service, the chef isn't trying to fix your meal and another 30 at the same time, and you can get home in time for the cricket highlights on the beeb
havoc said:
john_1983 said:
You lot are hilarious, thinking Yorkshire is the north
Hey, anywhere north of the Watford Gap is north as far as Londoners are concerned. They get a nosebleed if they get as far as Birmingham** Probably because they've just been mugged, but hey...
Doofus said:
sociopath said:
Where do you live where restaurants don't open until 7?
5.30 is perfect for eating out. It's quiet, you get better service, the chef isn't trying to fix your meal and another 30 at the same time, and you can get home in time for the cricket highlights on the beeb
To be clear, I'm not talking about McDonalds or Family Farm, here. I'm talking about restaurants for grown-ups.5.30 is perfect for eating out. It's quiet, you get better service, the chef isn't trying to fix your meal and another 30 at the same time, and you can get home in time for the cricket highlights on the beeb
Eating at 5.30 falls into the 'late lunch' category.
sociopath said:
Doofus said:
john_1983 said:
I'm far from retired, but I'm a hungry boy who wants his dinner at an appopriate time, not like you southern lot trying to live like you're on the continent and having dinner close to bedtime
6pm dinner is plenty late enough, I get hangry otherwise. Anyway, back to the point in hand - stick to the timings previously communicated!
Must be a PITA if you want to go out to dinner.6pm dinner is plenty late enough, I get hangry otherwise. Anyway, back to the point in hand - stick to the timings previously communicated!
John_1983: Hello, may I book a table for 5:30 please?
Maitre d': Sorry Sir, we don't open until 7.
John_1983: Ok, 7 then. Is it ok if I wear my pyjamas?
5.30 is perfect for eating out. It's quiet, you get better service, the chef isn't trying to fix your meal and another 30 at the same time, and you can get home in time for the cricket highlights on the beeb
Lahndon folk only click on things on a screen and get sixty times more money, and frankly some Ciabatta, humous and olives at 9pm is all a chap really needs.
ChevronB19 said:
andburg said:
john_1983 said:
You lot are hilarious, thinking Yorkshire is the north
It is the North of England - civilisation stops at the wall, beyond that be beasties
Doofus said:
sociopath said:
Where do you live where restaurants don't open until 7?
5.30 is perfect for eating out. It's quiet, you get better service, the chef isn't trying to fix your meal and another 30 at the same time, and you can get home in time for the cricket highlights on the beeb
To be clear, I'm not talking about McDonalds or Family Farm, here. I'm talking about restaurants for grown-ups.5.30 is perfect for eating out. It's quiet, you get better service, the chef isn't trying to fix your meal and another 30 at the same time, and you can get home in time for the cricket highlights on the beeb
But then again I also eat when I want to and not when strangers decide I should eat.
Jules Sunley said:
Yep, I think we have all experienced this. It's how they shop too.
If I go shopping (rare, isn't that what the Internet is for) and find what I want in the first shop I buy it and come straight home. Women, find what want in first shop, yes but may be something better somewhere else even though first shop one is perfect. Tour around more shops, with an obligatory coffee stop, then go back to first shop and buy first item 4 hours later with half a day wasted.
Gatherer behaviour:If I go shopping (rare, isn't that what the Internet is for) and find what I want in the first shop I buy it and come straight home. Women, find what want in first shop, yes but may be something better somewhere else even though first shop one is perfect. Tour around more shops, with an obligatory coffee stop, then go back to first shop and buy first item 4 hours later with half a day wasted.
Go round every food source, look at all of them, then retrace steps selecting the best/ripest/about to become overripe.
Hunter behaviour:
Kill first acceptable meat source, return.
handpaper said:
Gatherer behaviour:
Go round every food source, look at all of them, then retrace steps selecting the best/ripest/about to become overripe.
Hunter behaviour:
Kill first acceptable meat source, return.
Go round every food source, look at all of them, then retrace steps selecting the best/ripest/about to become overripe.
Hunter behaviour:
Kill first acceptable meat source, return.
It's all about the 'experience' for them
That and they are usually spending somebody else's money - so an element of savouring involved
Doofus said:
I'm often appalled by the unreconstituted, old-fashioned mysogyny on this thread, but then I find out you're having dinner at ten past five in the afternoon, and it becomes apparent just how old you all are.
There's an even greater level of misandry over on Mumsnet, so what goes around etc.A hot meal at ten past five in the afternoon is high tea not dinner. HTH.
Can't remember the last time I ate high tea, was probably a Wednesday in hall at university quite some years back now.
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